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| Being Comfortable Unanticipated Time Travel There was a public service commercial on TV once that finally portrayed marijuana use accurately. It showed a 25 year old smoking marijuana in his bedroom and telling the camera that he had been smoking it for ten years and it hadn’t affected him one bit. Then a voice came from outside the camera range asking him if had gone out to look for a job. He opened a window and tried to fan the smoke out so it wouldn’t be detected by his mother. The kid in the commercial was correct, he hadn’t changed a bit. He was a 25 year old 15 year old. It was like he took a one way time travel trip to the future, but when he got there he was older. This is sort of a picture of those who create a comfortable life for themselves. Even for Christians, the insulation of comfort can be spiritually crippling.  Most people would see a comfortable life to be their highest ambition. One goes to college to be able to secure a high paying job so that one can have a comfortable life. One robs or scams to get the money to have a comfortable life. One can use drugs or alcohol to blot out the reality that their life is not very comfortable. We all prefer to avoid discomfort.  Our being comfortable may not have been the purpose God had in creating humans. When comfortable, we tend to think strangely. We become vain in our imaginations. We have thousands of years of history that show we do not do well with prosperity. It is God’s will that everyone would be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. Truth and comfort often seem in opposition. The bible describes the optimum Christian life as a transition from living for self to living for others. If the fall of the first humans was a result of choosing their own path away from God, the rest of human history might be seen as God trying to reach out in a way that some might be enticed away from selfish interests back to the life that was intended for them, through Christ. And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:15 Jesus, in his earthly ministry, called three groups of people hypocrites: the Pharisees, who thought they were sufficient for what they did; the Sadducees, who thought they were sufficient for who they were; and the Herodians, who thought they were sufficient because of who they knew. This sort of hypocrisy is the deception of self. This state of comfortable complacency can also deceive Christians into thinking that God has blessed them, rather than that they have blinded themselves. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 2 Corinthians 3:5 |
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